Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 131
Turning suddenly to the soldiers, he ordered them to search the sepulchres.
Who acts: Yuza · What happens: turn, order, search · To what, where: soldiers, sepulchres
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yuza), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ordered | advcl |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 1 Turning | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 soldiers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldiers | det |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Turning | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 search | mark |
| 11 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sepulchres | det |
| 13 | sepulchres | sepulchre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 search | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Yuza not said here | the soldiers | suddenly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to soldier=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | order | past | Yuza | soldiers = soldier | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | search not said to happen | to-infinitive | Yuza not said here | the sepulchres | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sepulchre=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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